Arabic

Character error rate — word scoring mismeasures this language.

MunsitTry →2.7%

OpenAIGPT-4o TranscribeTry →3.3%

AssemblyAIUniversal-3.5 ProTry →3.5%

MetaMuse Voice Transcribe 1.0Try →3.6%

Sonioxstt-rt-v5Try →3.6%

NariQwen3-ASRTry →3.9%

AlibabaQwen3-ASR Realtime4.1%

ElevenLabsScribe v2 RealtimeTry →4.2%

xAIGrok STTTry →4.7%

OpenAIGPT-4o-mini TranscribeTry →4.9%

Munsiten-arTry →4.9%

HamsaS3Try →5.0%

ModulateVelma 2 multilingualTry →5.0%

DeepgramNova-3Try →7.6%

CartesiaInk-WhisperTry →10.1%

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Time from the caller stopping to the finalized transcript, not the first partial — the agent cannot reply until it lands.

DeepgramNova-3Try →317ms · 385ms

Sonioxstt-rt-v5Try →520ms · 745ms

OpenAIGPT-4o-mini TranscribeTry →908ms · 1.14s

AlibabaQwen3-ASR Realtime924ms · 1.07s

MunsitTry →987ms · 1.09s

OpenAIGPT-4o TranscribeTry →1.05s · 1.36s

AssemblyAIUniversal-3.5 ProTry →1.49s · 1.82s

ElevenLabsScribe v2 RealtimeTry →1.99s · 2.13s

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How long before the first word of the transcript arrives.

MunsitTry →1.06s · 1.72s

AssemblyAIUniversal-3.5 ProTry →1.07s · 1.78s

DeepgramNova-3Try →1.25s · 2.26s

Sonioxstt-rt-v5Try →1.51s · 2.21s

ElevenLabsScribe v2 RealtimeTry →2.18s · 2.28s

AlibabaQwen3-ASR Realtime6.74s · 7.62s

OpenAIGPT-4o TranscribeTry →7.76s · 13.3s

OpenAIGPT-4o-mini TranscribeTry →7.79s · 13.4s

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